If it is true that the saints become genuinely the members of Christ Who is God of all, and if, as we said, they have as their duty remaining attached and united to His Body so the He may be their Head and they--all the saints from the beginning of the world to the Last Day--may be his members, and the many become one Body of Christ, as it were a single Man, then it follows that some, for example, fulfill the role of His hands, working even now to accomplish His all-holy will, making worthy the unworthy and preserving them for Him.
Others are the shoulders, bearing the burdens of others, or even carrying the lost sheep whom they find wandering in the crags and wild places abandoned by God. These, too, accomplish His will.
Others fulfill the role of the breast, pouring out God's righteousness to those who hunger and thirst for it, providing them with the bread which nourishes the powers of heaven.
Others still are the belly. They embrace everyone with love. They carry the Spirit of salvation in there bowels and posses the capacity to bear His ineffable and hidden mysteries.
Others, again, take the function of the thighs since they carry in themselves the fecundity of the concepts adequate to God of mystical theology. They engender the Spirit of Wisdom upon the earth, i.e., the fruit of the Spirit and His seed in the hearts of men, through the word of their teaching.
Finally, there are those who act as the legs and feet. These last reveal courage and endurance in temptations, after the manner of Job, and their stability in the good is in no way shaken or weakened, but instead they bear up under the burden of the Spirit's gifts.
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